Windows is cheaper than the free OS. That makes sense.
If that was the only cost difference, then it would not make sense. But I suspect the cost difference is due to the volume spread of customer support.
As a bussiness, if you were to add support services for any OS or item, the totality of that support would have a total cost. Divide that cost by the number of customers paying for that service and you have your price. Thus more customers, equals greater volume spread of the cost, equals smaller price per customer.
Now I'll leave it to someone else to divulge or speculate on whether Dell sells more systems with Windows support, or more with Ubuntu support.
How is this stopping fighting? It's quite the opposite - this may have an effect on the perception the U.S. public holds about the "security" services you have. Oh, and it's not that I think that people employed as spies or policemen outside the U.S. are in any way competent. Yours are just particularly arrogant, obnoxious and, unfortunately, powerful.
I assumed most Slashdotters would be familiar with the quote, but I should have provided the full source George Orwell's 1984
As for your attitude against America, please try to think that we are all in this together, so that if your neighbor's human rights are violated, irregardless of his nationality, we all lose.
"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother." Part 3, Chapter 6
If we want to be exposed to unpopular views on war in mass media, perhaps we shouldn't fire decent radio DJs who occasionally quote rap music with unpopular racial stereotypes.
I am soooooo offended by your suggestion. I DEMAND AN APOLOGY!!!
Is that "do no evil" or "Do KNOW EVIL!"? did anyone get this in writing or has this whole slogan thing been word of mouth?
Actually, it's "Don't be evil" from their CoC. And I imagine their decision to refuse this type of advertising is, in their opinion, the lesser of two evils.
Ok so this is an extreme over-simplification... What is the difference between not advertising certain pages and not letting Chinese search up certain pages?
The difference is you are free to choose another search engine, other than the family-friendly Google. Where as the people living under the CCP have no such freedom to information, and no choice.
If the Mozilla Foundation goes down a path of secret agreements, proprietary code, and strings-attached Google sponsorship, then wouldn't the original contibutors that want to continue on with the original project goals be considered forkers? Iceweasal anyone
The visualization technique was intersting, but I found it easier to understand just by reading a simple list of the most vandalized topics. Jesus, Hitler, Britney Spears, Bush, Global Warming, etc... most anything to do with religon or politics.
On the contrary, Disney is the perfect target. What other company has benefited so much by taking from the public domain, yet continuously refuses to release anything back.
Like other safety concerns, it's better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it. With DRM, in order to be completly safe, sometimes content will recieve additional protections. But isn't that better than not enough protection, where one of your favorite movies might be viewed accidently?
Everyone votes pro-DRM or pro-FairUse with their dollars. So purchase services and electronics that reflect your values, and what you want to protect. As for the rest... Smash
Here are a few definitions from words used in the article...
Indian Market - A place where Windows is priced too high to consider paying for, but where GNU/Linux is too (blank) to even consider installing at no cost at all.
Raid - Pretending to be a normal customer, asking for a free copy of Windows, then mailing a Cease & Desist letter a month later. Very similiar to sending dozens of men to jump out of a van, and seizing all software and hardware.
Boycott - When you declare that you will stop purchasing from a particular company. It is not important that you weren't buying from them in the first place, the point is to make a distraction and take the focus off yourself. Remember, in the news, it's not who is right or wrong, it's who can successfully portray themselves as the victim.
In this case I'm not sure if either term "spin" or "angular momentum" is accurate. Perhaps they should create a unique name to describe the currently unknown action. I know they like to name these things after the first person to imagine, define, discover, or prove it, but that hasn't stop naming based on unknowns before. Some examples...
UFO - unidentified flying object, but now used in the positive sense. Think about someone asking "do you believe in UFOs", could you possibly say "no, I don't believe in flying objects that cannot be identified"?
Dark Matter - originally to explain why equations don't calculate out equally, and suggested some unaccounted principle or force that we don't know about or understand. Now, it's actually matter.
SIDS - suden infant death syndrome, once a catch-all phrase put on death certificates that meant unknown cause. Now studies blame various aliments like second hand smoke for Sids. Technically, if second hand smoke was the cause, then it would be the cause itself, and not Sids, but trying to explain that is more difficult than explaining the end of the millenium is on December 31st 2000, not 1999.
If you tried entering that word into any online dictionary, you would notice that it is in fact spelled "expiry".
Actually I did look it up, but there was no entry (Random-House). As my initial guess for the choosen usage was based upon a limitation of maximun length, I expounded by counting and comparing the number of characters. If the word was misspelled, or made-up, or archaic, or foreign, it really didn't matter to me as I understood the meaning.
Enough of them to say that's a pretty arrogant question.
But hey, on the flip side, all of us young whipper snappers are just a bunch of gun toting hoodlums up to no good, right?
Actually, it's a rhetorical question.
Any arrogance that one might see would originate with the beholder. Honestly, I couldn't even imagine which part you thought was arrogant until after reading your second line that is highly defensive of youths (opposite of those over age 59), even going so far to as to associate them with crimianls (opposite of someone in law enforcement, like a judge).
Good call on posting the anonymously (opposite of someone with a reputation worth something).
Several, including one that is 70+ who can tell me in detail why he thinks Intel's current CPU architecture is corner cutting crap and who actually did repair electonic medical equipment while he was hospitalised using only a nurses hairpin.
OMG, I can't believe that McGyver is over 70 !
OMG, I'm providing a link to McGyver for everyone who isn't as old as I am, and wouldn't be familiar with the cultural reference.
Honestly, how many people do you know, age 59 and older, that can participate in a technological conversation?
The judge in this case is probably just fine, as he probably is quite experienced with human behavior. Comparitivly, think of an opposite situation, like a teenager that is well verserd in computer technology, but lacks the critical life experience to make good judgements.
At a click rate of 0,16% - about one in 600 - I have to wonder if not a fairly large portion is simple click errors.
At first I thought the same thing, just random misclicks. But then it hit me, there are a large number of users on the internet that don't have the know-how to install a virus on a computer of someone they hate, like an uppity coworker.
Imagine a bussiness model that would allow anyone to simply 1-click and install a virus (not a feature, those are patentable). Revenue would be generated with advertisments downloaded by the trojan, that would popup at random times on the victims computer. In essence, the victim would have to pay for the service. Brilliant!
I have never posted Anonymous Coward before because I don't care for it. Oh, I wouldn't remove it, as it's a neccessary evil some times, but anyone looking at my history can see that I'm willing to stand up and take the heat for what I say.
With that said I'm posting anonymously here because even though I have no fear of FanBoys or Trollz, I do fear the knee jerk reaction of the brain dead that see any normal comment about women as threatening. They assume women are weak, pathetic creatures, that can't do anything for themselves, and must be saved by a male hero, which they see themselves in the staring role.
To whomever modded your comment Flamebait, they need to stop hiding and grow a pair.
Postscript: Bah! What the hell, I must love those angry faces. *unchecks Post Anoymously*
Now how a internet troll and a building contractor are comparable I have no fucking clue
I don't see the comic connection either. You shouldn't take it too seriously though, because while they may have found some correlation between testosterone, subliminal angry faces, and learning responses, they certainly haven't found a link.
Might as well say you have found a link between shopping for shoes, wearing high heals, and getting pregnant. A correlation is certainly there, but linking them together in the 1-2-3 cause & effect way is a mistaken assumption.
Even a sufficently powerful computer with non optimal programming will at worst now hold its own with the best humans.
This is the secret that the article, or the Deep Blue group, isn't so quick to point out. The human versus computer match didn't turn the tide when computing power grew, as chess is still sufficiently more complex for exhaustive branch searches on even todays best hardware.
No, the tide turned when the programmers employeed chess masters to detail out their end game stratiges. Once the software was programed with these functions, it then had same ability to analyze end game situations, just as a chess master does, but it could do it with less likelyhood of missing opportunities that lead to advantages and wins.
Points for being civilized, and for explaining a logic behind your perspective.
The moral: Buy Indian Rupees and invest in China. America is going down.
Is there any chance you could be persuaded to change sides, and instead of bringing America "down", join us in bringing "up" those people living in countries that lack the freedoms so many of us enjoy.
Before everyone jumps to concluding that bussiness is evil, capitalism is evil, blah blah blah. Remember where the moral responsibility and ultimate decision rests, it rests with society.
Example, if two patients are admitted to a hospital. The first is a guy that cut himself in his garage, and just needs a few stitches. The second is a gang member that was shot while commiting a crime, and is now in critical condition. The doctor, like a bussiness, isn't responsible for making the moral decision between the two patients, he can't choose to stitch up the regular joe while the gang member bleeds to death.
To bring that example back to work visa programs, they are only a bridge, a bridge between two radically disparate areas, and it's not the programs responsibity to dictate to society. But as we can see here, it's one hell of an indicator of a problem, that of how relativly bad one area is compared to how good another area is.
Instead of focusing on work visas, a symptom like bleeding is a symptom, we should address the cause of the problem. Or we could sling mud, twidle our thumbs, and the bleeding will stop upon exsanguation.
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If that was the only cost difference, then it would not make sense. But I suspect the cost difference is due to the volume spread of customer support.
As a bussiness, if you were to add support services for any OS or item, the totality of that support would have a total cost. Divide that cost by the number of customers paying for that service and you have your price. Thus more customers, equals greater volume spread of the cost, equals smaller price per customer.
Now I'll leave it to someone else to divulge or speculate on whether Dell sells more systems with Windows support, or more with Ubuntu support.
I assumed most Slashdotters would be familiar with the quote, but I should have provided the full source George Orwell's 1984
As for your attitude against America, please try to think that we are all in this together, so that if your neighbor's human rights are violated, irregardless of his nationality, we all lose.
"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother." Part 3, Chapter 6
I am soooooo offended by your suggestion. I DEMAND AN APOLOGY!!!
Actually, it's "Don't be evil" from their CoC. And I imagine their decision to refuse this type of advertising is, in their opinion, the lesser of two evils.
If the Mozilla Foundation goes down a path of secret agreements, proprietary code, and strings-attached Google sponsorship, then wouldn't the original contibutors that want to continue on with the original project goals be considered forkers? Iceweasal anyone
The visualization technique was intersting, but I found it easier to understand just by reading a simple list of the most vandalized topics. Jesus, Hitler, Britney Spears, Bush, Global Warming, etc... most anything to do with religon or politics.
On the contrary, Disney is the perfect target. What other company has benefited so much by taking from the public domain, yet continuously refuses to release anything back.
Like other safety concerns, it's better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it. With DRM, in order to be completly safe, sometimes content will recieve additional protections. But isn't that better than not enough protection, where one of your favorite movies might be viewed accidently?
Everyone votes pro-DRM or pro-FairUse with their dollars. So purchase services and electronics that reflect your values, and what you want to protect. As for the rest... Smash
Here are a few definitions from words used in the article...
Indian Market - A place where Windows is priced too high to consider paying for, but where GNU/Linux is too (blank) to even consider installing at no cost at all.
Raid - Pretending to be a normal customer, asking for a free copy of Windows, then mailing a Cease & Desist letter a month later. Very similiar to sending dozens of men to jump out of a van, and seizing all software and hardware.
Boycott - When you declare that you will stop purchasing from a particular company. It is not important that you weren't buying from them in the first place, the point is to make a distraction and take the focus off yourself. Remember, in the news, it's not who is right or wrong, it's who can successfully portray themselves as the victim.
In this case I'm not sure if either term "spin" or "angular momentum" is accurate. Perhaps they should create a unique name to describe the currently unknown action. I know they like to name these things after the first person to imagine, define, discover, or prove it, but that hasn't stop naming based on unknowns before. Some examples...
UFO - unidentified flying object, but now used in the positive sense. Think about someone asking "do you believe in UFOs", could you possibly say "no, I don't believe in flying objects that cannot be identified"?
Dark Matter - originally to explain why equations don't calculate out equally, and suggested some unaccounted principle or force that we don't know about or understand. Now, it's actually matter.
SIDS - suden infant death syndrome, once a catch-all phrase put on death certificates that meant unknown cause. Now studies blame various aliments like second hand smoke for Sids. Technically, if second hand smoke was the cause, then it would be the cause itself, and not Sids, but trying to explain that is more difficult than explaining the end of the millenium is on December 31st 2000, not 1999.
Actually I did look it up, but there was no entry (Random-House). As my initial guess for the choosen usage was based upon a limitation of maximun length, I expounded by counting and comparing the number of characters. If the word was misspelled, or made-up, or archaic, or foreign, it really didn't matter to me as I understood the meaning.
I think expirey is spelled correctly, although an uncommon word, but after counting the characters it wouldn't matter with a 50 character limit.
(45) Microsoft's SUSE Coupons Have No Expirey Date
(48) Microsoft's SUSE Coupons Have No Expiration Date
Submission titles have a max character limit, and swaping expirey for expiration was probably neccessary.
Only in the movies do the bad guys cut off the electricity and phone (communications blackout) before breaking in with guns ablazing.
Only by submitting this story through my Estonian proxy on the 16th, did it get rejected for this one submitted on the 17th.
It's funny, laugh. Better yet, moderate me funny damnit!
Actually, it's a rhetorical question.
Any arrogance that one might see would originate with the beholder. Honestly, I couldn't even imagine which part you thought was arrogant until after reading your second line that is highly defensive of youths (opposite of those over age 59), even going so far to as to associate them with crimianls (opposite of someone in law enforcement, like a judge).
Good call on posting the anonymously (opposite of someone with a reputation worth something).
OMG, I can't believe that McGyver is over 70 !
OMG, I'm providing a link to McGyver for everyone who isn't as old as I am, and wouldn't be familiar with the cultural reference.
Honestly, how many people do you know, age 59 and older, that can participate in a technological conversation?
The judge in this case is probably just fine, as he probably is quite experienced with human behavior. Comparitivly, think of an opposite situation, like a teenager that is well verserd in computer technology, but lacks the critical life experience to make good judgements.
At first I thought the same thing, just random misclicks. But then it hit me, there are a large number of users on the internet that don't have the know-how to install a virus on a computer of someone they hate, like an uppity coworker.
Imagine a bussiness model that would allow anyone to simply 1-click and install a virus (not a feature, those are patentable). Revenue would be generated with advertisments downloaded by the trojan, that would popup at random times on the victims computer. In essence, the victim would have to pay for the service. Brilliant!
I have never posted Anonymous Coward before because I don't care for it. Oh, I wouldn't remove it, as it's a neccessary evil some times, but anyone looking at my history can see that I'm willing to stand up and take the heat for what I say.
With that said I'm posting anonymously here because even though I have no fear of FanBoys or Trollz, I do fear the knee jerk reaction of the brain dead that see any normal comment about women as threatening. They assume women are weak, pathetic creatures, that can't do anything for themselves, and must be saved by a male hero, which they see themselves in the staring role.
To whomever modded your comment Flamebait, they need to stop hiding and grow a pair.
Postscript: Bah! What the hell, I must love those angry faces. *unchecks Post Anoymously*
I don't see the comic connection either. You shouldn't take it too seriously though, because while they may have found some correlation between testosterone, subliminal angry faces, and learning responses, they certainly haven't found a link.
Might as well say you have found a link between shopping for shoes, wearing high heals, and getting pregnant. A correlation is certainly there, but linking them together in the 1-2-3 cause & effect way is a mistaken assumption.
This is the secret that the article, or the Deep Blue group, isn't so quick to point out. The human versus computer match didn't turn the tide when computing power grew, as chess is still sufficiently more complex for exhaustive branch searches on even todays best hardware.
No, the tide turned when the programmers employeed chess masters to detail out their end game stratiges. Once the software was programed with these functions, it then had same ability to analyze end game situations, just as a chess master does, but it could do it with less likelyhood of missing opportunities that lead to advantages and wins.
Is there any chance you could be persuaded to change sides, and instead of bringing America "down", join us in bringing "up" those people living in countries that lack the freedoms so many of us enjoy.
Before everyone jumps to concluding that bussiness is evil, capitalism is evil, blah blah blah. Remember where the moral responsibility and ultimate decision rests, it rests with society.
Example, if two patients are admitted to a hospital. The first is a guy that cut himself in his garage, and just needs a few stitches. The second is a gang member that was shot while commiting a crime, and is now in critical condition. The doctor, like a bussiness, isn't responsible for making the moral decision between the two patients, he can't choose to stitch up the regular joe while the gang member bleeds to death.
To bring that example back to work visa programs, they are only a bridge, a bridge between two radically disparate areas, and it's not the programs responsibity to dictate to society. But as we can see here, it's one hell of an indicator of a problem, that of how relativly bad one area is compared to how good another area is.
Instead of focusing on work visas, a symptom like bleeding is a symptom, we should address the cause of the problem. Or we could sling mud, twidle our thumbs, and the bleeding will stop upon exsanguation.